Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Category: Animal Quotes
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Quote: Julia Child on Cats
As Therese Asche used to say “A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine.”
— Julia Child, “My Life in France“
Quote: Tran Thien Khiem on Cats and Dogs
Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.
— Tran Thien Khiem
Quote: W. C. Fields on Cats
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
— W. C. Fields
Quote: Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat
“All right”, said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Quote: Emily Brontë on Cats
I can say with sincerity that I love cats; furthermore I am going to give very good reasons why those who hate them are wrong.
— Emily Brontë
Quote: George Will on Cats
The phrase ‘domestic cat’ is an oxymoron.
— George Will
Quote: Chinese Proverb about Cats
I gave an order to a cat and the cat gave the order to its tail.
— Chinese Proverb
Quote: Groucho Marx on Cats
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
— Groucho Marx
Quote: Herodotus on Cats
When a cat died, a wise Egyptian tried to be someplace else so that he couldn’t be accused of murder.
— Herodotus
